Evaluation of Decisional Conflict and Needs Assessment in Asthma Management

Decisional Conflict and Needs Assessment in Shared Decision Making in Asthma Management

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01520883

Enrollment

Registered

2012-01-30

Start date

2011-03-31

Completion date

2012-12-31

Last updated

2013-05-27

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Conditions

Asthma

Brief summary

Many patients suffering from asthma are not compliant to their treatment and consequently, are not well controlled. Shared decision making intervention has shown an improvement in the outcome of patients with chronic disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate decisional conflict and to assess decisional needs of adults with asthma.

Detailed description

Asthmatic patients will be recruited and asked to fill a decisional conflict scale. Patients, asthma educators and physicians will also be recruited to fill a needs assessment questionnaire about decisions taken by asthmatics.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* 18-65 years * diagnosed asthma

Exclusion criteria

* received asthma education in the past 2 years

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Measuring Decisional Conflict with a valid Decisional Conflict Scale	6 month	To measure the level of decisional conflict, subjects were asked to fill out a decisional conflict scale on asthma management which was developed by O'Connor adapted for our study. This questionnaire consisted of 16 questions. The answers used a Likert scale ranged from 1 - strongly agree to 5 - strongly disagree.

Countries

Canada

Outcome results